Hi,
We maintain a copy of genbank (release + updates) as well as embl for
blast 1.4 searches. The problem is that these databases have reached a
size that exceeds a 32 bits integer capacity - and this version of blast is
mainly based on such types of integer (more exactly 31 bits, for the
integers are not unsigned). As a result, malloc of negative
numbers occur.
Of course, we also have the blast 2 NCBI and Washington-Univ. versions.
We are aware that this version of blast is not maintained anymore at NCBI, but
we keep the "old" 1.4 version of blast for compatibility reasons
with blast output parsers (like bob, tbob, blast2html, ...).
Updating blast 1.4 sources by replacing the 32 bits types by long integers
seem very hazardous ...
Does someone here have the same problem, and some solution ?
Thanks in advance,
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